HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1930.
WAITING FOR JUNIOR
By GLUTAS WILLIAMS
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Niece: "Oh-Isn't the water cold?"
Auntie: "Well, you will went those timsy bathing suits."
What university is your son at- tending!"
"I've forgotten now, but it's the one just outside the Yale Bowl.".
"There will be services this even- ing at the usual time," announced the preacher "Our subject will be Casting Pearls Before Swine,' and I shall be glad to see as many of you present as possible."
Mother (at 7 o'clock in the even- ing:) "Come, Ethel, it is bedtime. All the little birds have gone to sleep in their little nests.
Ethel (nt. & o'clock next morn-
First Plunger "Consolidated Buggies is a good stock. I've got faith in it.
Second: "You're fortunate. I'vo got money in it."
Gentleman (coming round tha corner): "What are you putting that muzzle on your little brother
for "
Tommy: "Co I'm sending 'im for some candy."
It really happened, according to Richy Craig Jr., in the club car of a west-bound train.
"So you're an actor eh mat- tered the stout man. "Well,' I'm a banker. And, would you believe it. I haven't been near a theatre in ten years."
That's nothing at all." respond-
ing): "Come. Mamma, it is timeed the other brezily." "I haven't to get up. All the little birds are up, and the mamma birds, too."
A
was well-known, nobleman strolling one day when he met a rustic holding in his right hand a
been neara bank in twenty years !”
A futtery lady, pretty, in a small coupe, got mixed up about things on the road and drove right past a red fight. The traffic. po-
and went over to her car.
rupe tied to a very frisky calf,liceman motioned her into the curb and in his left a staff. The coun- tryman said "Good morning," fund was passing on when the nobleman said:
My good man, don't you know ma?
"Oh, yes," said the man. "you are Lord B-"
Then why don't you touch your hat asked his lordship.
Well, my lord, if you don't mind holding this calf a minute, i will," responded, the rustic.
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"Didn't you hear me blow my whistle?" he naked.
"No," said the lady.
"Didn't you see me hold up my hand to you?”
"No," she said, and shock her head meekly.
"He stared at her long moment, not angrily really just reproachful- ly.
"Well," he said at last, "I guess I night just as well go home."
THEATRE
ACENTRAL THO
Paramount's Sound Pictures R
Positively Last Screening in
Hong Kong To-day
At 2.15, 5.10, 7.15 and 9.20 P.M.
HEAR! Dream Lover" My Love Parade
Paris. Stay the Same Let's Be Common Nobody's Using It Now
a Garamount Iraur
TTERLY de-
Ulightful, cn
trancing, enrap- turing!" says The New York Daily News. Hear Che- See valier sing. him make lave. In this mirthful müs ical-romance of a beautiful queen.
MAURICE
CHEVALIER
The Love Parade
AN ERNST
LUBITSCH
PRODUCTION
JEANETTE MacDONALD LUPIED LANE LILLIAN BOTH
TO-MORROW; Wednesday, June 25th
A Paramount All Talking Picture
CLIVE
BROOK
The Well-known British Actor
IN
THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK
HOLMES.
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You're read of Sherlock Holmes! You recall his daring At last!
you can bear bis adventure Now.
See him weave his net around the uncanny deductions most famous criminal of history! An amazing, nerve-tingling sequel to the exploits of Conan Doyle's famous detectivo!
AND
MEI LAN FANG
's. Great Woman Impersonator
IN
"FASCINATION OF A GENERAL" As played by him on Broadway.
IS OUT WALKING WITH PARENTS. FOLLOWS ALONG ABOUT A BLOCK BEHIND, CALLING work REY PLEASE WAIT
PARENTS STOP. HE STOPS. LONG DISTANCE ARGU- MENT FOLLOWS AS TD-
WHY HE HAS BEEN
HEARS IMPATIENT SHOOT- FROM PARENTS AND TROTS ON AGAIN. STOPS SUDDEN- LY TO CALL HE'S LOST A MITTEN
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HONG KONG POLICE RESERVE.
I TƯNG SỐ
[ORDERS BY THE HUN. MR. E. D. C. WOLFE, C.M.G., INSPECTOR- GENERAL OF POLICE.]
General,
DRAINS WITH STICK IN MUD WHILE PA- RENTS START BACK TO FIND MITEN
PARENTS AT LAST AGREE TO WAIT IF HE HURES, BREAKS IND "TROT
AS PARENTS COME UP. TO HIM DISCOVERS LOST MITTEN IN OTHER POCKET
(Copyright, 1990, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
ALLEGED TORTURE OF AUTHORESS.
TERRIBLE BRUTALITIES CHARGED TO SERBIAN POLICE.
CONFESSION OF GUILT EXTORTED.
BELGRADE, Jude 18.
GOOD INTENTIONS FROS- TRATED BY SEEING COLORED PEBBLE. STOPS TO PICK IT UP
SIPRTS ON WITH WARNING: NOT TO LAG AGAIN, BUT OWING TO WATCHING DOS ACROSS STREET IS SOON A BLOCK BEHIND ONCE ®
MORE
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PROGRAMME.
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11 to 11.30 ..-Commercial News 11.30 am to 12.30 p.m.-Chinese
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19.30 to 2 p.m.-Programme
Columbia records supplied by Messrs. Anderson Music Co. ?
A terrible tale of alleged torture 6 pm-Mignon, Overture, Milan
Revolver Practice:-The regular weekly revolver practice (voluntary) will take place at the Bowen Road Revolver Range on Wednesday, June 25, from 5.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m., by the Serbian police was unfolded formal complaint and not at 9.00 p.m. ns formerly.to-day in a It will be open to all ranks of the lodged with the Jugoslav Premier Hong Kong Police, Special Con- M. Zivkowich, on her liberation atables, Sharpshooters' Company, after four weeks of arrest by the Hong Kong Police Reserve and to distinguished German literary wo all persons hokling permits to carry man, Frau Isolde Reiter.
(Please not the alteration
arins.
of time).
Some time ago, ebe was suddenly arrested on the charge that she had participated in propaganda on be half of the "oppressed German minority" in Jugoslavia. Unable to produce evidence to prove this allegation, the police under the personal supervision of the chief of police, Maksinowicht, tried to ex- tort from Frau Reiter a confession
Police Training School, The" weekly classes for Police Reservists at the Police Training School, Kowloon, will be held on Tuesday, June 21, at 5.20 p.m. All members of the Chinese and Indian Companies and of the Flying Squad who have not yet passed Part II. of training course are requested to at-by inhuman tortures. tend.
Indian Company. - Strength:--Constable R200 Ahmed Khan having left the Colony for gond, has been struck off the strength of the Indian Company as from June 16, 1930.
Flying Squad.
She alleges that she was gagged, had her feet bound together, ber hands tied below the kaces with an iron bar inserted between her arms and the knees, was thrown on the Boor, "kicked and received a bas- tinado on her naked feet with a
tubular rod. On May 16, she The weekly instructional patrol of the Kowloon Section will take alleges, this torture lasted from place on Tuesday, June 24. Fall in nine o'clock in the evening until 8 at the Taimtsatsui Fire Brigade midnight when Frau Reiter in Station at 5.30 p.m. sharp. Dress: Khaki, uniform and cap with khaki terrible pain and covered with blood gave in so as to escape fur-
cover.
The final instructional patrol of ther ill-treatment and signed & the month of the Hong Kong See-document placed before her and in- tion will take place on Friday, June
cover.
Symphony Orchestra.
6.09 p.m.-The Gold Diggers of Brandway, Regal Cinema Orch. 6.17 p.m.-Until the End, Fred Rich
and Orchestra.
6.23 p.manctuary of the Heart, Albert Ketelbey and Orch.. 6.31 p.m.-The Toymaker's Dream,
Debroy Somers Band.
6.38 p.m.-Shenandoah, Sea Shanty,
W. H. Squire, Violincello.
p.m.-Riggoletto, Quartette, with Orchestra."
6.46
7
6.54 p.m.My Fate is in Your
Hands, Layton and Johnson. p.m.-Scenes Pittoresques, Ar- gelus, Orch, Symphodic Paris.
Chin Chow," pm - Chu Selection, London Repertoire Orchestia..."
7.09
7.17 p.m.-Dance of the Rain-drops,
Jack Payne B.B.C. Orch. 7.23 p.m.-Largo, from "New World Symphony, Sir Hamilton Harty Halle Orch.; Scherzo, from The New World," Sir Hamilton Harty Halle Orch. 7.45 p.m.-Coppelia Ballet, B.B.C.
Wireless Symphony Orch. 7.53 pun.-The Merry Brothers, Sir Dan Godfrey and Bournemouth Municipal Orch.
p.m.-Chinese programme relay. ed from Ko Shing Theatre until the end of the play.
SWEDISH MATCHES
BOYCOTTED.
FOREIGN INVASION AGAIN RESENTED.
27, sad all members are requested criminating herself and the well- deputy former German at attend. Fall in at Central Police | known Station at 5.15 p.m. sharp. Dress: Neuner. Khaki uniform and cap with khaki Under the threat of renewed torture she was forced to sign an- other document stating that she
Another boycott has been_pro- Sharpshooters' Company.
had made the first statement of ber Revolver Practice: Revolver pracown free will whereafter she was claimed by Shanghai labourers. tice will be carried out on the liberated. She immediately lodged This time it has been called against Bowen Road Range on Wednesday, a protest with the authorities. Swedish matches in China. The. June 25, from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. Though similar allegations bave Members are to note the alteration often been made by Croatian labour union of the Yung Chang of time. They will assemble at the patriots, Communists, and other Match Co., Pootung, believes that Range at that time with revolvers, political prisoners in Jugoslavia, belts and holsters. Uniform optional, this is the first time that a foreign (Sgd.) D. L. KING, citizen, has made the same com
D.S.P. (R.). plaint.
A NEW AMERICAN
ARRIVAL.
The s... Chickasaw City, which brought a cargo of 966 tons of tin- plates to the Colony over the week end, is a new-comer to the port. She is under the command of Capt. A. E. Johnson and has a crew of 33 American and two Asiatic sea
men.
The vessel was built in 1920 by the Chickasaw S.B. Company and hae-length of 395.5 feet a beam of 53 feet and a depth 1.31% feet Her engines develop 587 N.ELP. She is a steel screw steamer of 6,190 tons gross and 3,848 netting
The Chickasaw City is owned by the U.S. Steel Product Company of New York, and the local agents are the Bank, Line.
SHANGHAI LAND SALE.
PURCHASE BY JARDINES.
the, foreigners are encroaching.on China's match industry and that the Swedish match merchants have made a commercial invasion, mono-" polized the market, and are on the verge of throwing thousands" of Chinese labourers out of work. It is also stated that China's match imports from Sweden have increas It was learned last week that the ed considerably during the past fine residential property formerly years and that Swedish inerchants owned by Mr. E. Gill in the propose to open a number of new French Concession in Shanghai has match factories in China. been acquired by Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co,
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AT THE
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DOROTHY BURGESS
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FOX NEWS
QUEEN'S
Fast
Steppers..."
With her very life, wagered on the out- come, Lee and her lover centre their
eyes and hopes où "Dixie," reliable rac
¿T, wha thunder down the home sirbtch gamely hat-
tling to win.
CHARLIE CHASE
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
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The escapades of a couple of escaped war prisoners
in the land of Sheiks and Harems!
UNITED ARTISTS PICTURE
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LOUIS WOLFIIM
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The first statement is true, saysHE HONG KONG DAILY Ꮧ PRESS, LTD., and the HONG The property, which is situated the North China Daily News, but
no authentic confirmation can be KONG WEEKLY PRESS, through their London Office, at 83, FLEETTM at the corner of Avenue Joffre and had of the latter. Inasmuch-us Route Pichon, is just over 22 mow there have been literally hundreds STREET, B.C., are prepared to give in extent, and the building forms of similar boycotts recently, usuel Subscribers and Visitors" advice regarding accommodation available, comm7་བདག་དང་་ར་ in Shanghai..
ping centres, etc.
This is the third time that this property has changed hands within recent months, and although the purchase price has not been an nounced, it is understood that it is over three lakhs." "
backed by prejudice it seems safe to say that it is unlikely that "a" number of new match factories". will go up in the immediate future There are a great many similar hoycotts occurring almost weekly against one product or another.
If, when at home, they will call or telephone to the above address, ance and the latest available infor they will receive the utmost assist mation on all subjects of enquiry will be placed at their disposal
LAUGHS
A "TWO
C
FLAMING
U
R
YOUTHS'
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with
E
W. G. FIELDS. HCHESTER CONKLINS. A SCREAM
Love makes the heart grow young and laughter will-well-if you have any loose laughs prepare to lose 'em!
AT THE
MAJESTIC
Hathan Road, Kowloon.
Showing for the FIRST TIME in
Hong Kong.